It was, as Bill Clinton told us at the Democratic convention, about the arithmetic. And last night, the arithmetic won.

Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States. The polls, beaten up for weeks by partisans as being “skewed,” were generally correct. Polling nerds like Nate Silver, pooh-poohed by some pundits, proved even more correct. After billions of dollars of spending, the election was remarkably predictable, and predicted.

But in a bizarre interlude last night, Fox News analyst and GOP rainmaker Karl Rove went to war against the math–his own network’s.

Rove wasn't the only conservative who had trouble accepting the call, first made by NBC News, that Obama had won Ohio and the election. Reality TV star Donald Trump railed on Twitter about a "sham" election, saying "we should have a revolution in this country."

CNN, MSNBC and Fox News reported returns with speed guaranteed to please the most app-addicted, devoting far more time to CG-heavy demographic deconstruction than to the traditional talking-head gab fest. Oh, sure, the MSNBC team yakked a bit obsessively about voter-suppression-by-long-lines in Ohio while Fox News harped about the recent killings in Benghazi, Libya, but from the moment the early polls closed, the star of the night was the super screen.

First, the Sawyer thing: Instead of focusing entirely on the 24-hour cable news channels like Fox, MSNBC and CNN, I wanted to see how the networks were doing (they were a lot calmer, but they didn’t capture the excitement of election night and seemed to have an inordinate amount of commercial breaks, which just doesn’t work on a historic night like this). Anyway, that’s when I first commented via Twitter about Sawyer seeming particularly giddy. Whatever she was having, I wanted some.

Diane Sawyer was definitely probably drunk tonight during ABC's election coverage. Would you agree? Not convinced yet? She slurred every other word, rambled about the lack of music, and asked a correspondent if the exclamation point in the Obama slogan represented the direction he truly wanted to go with his presidency. What more proof do you need?

Stephanopoulos, who carries perhaps too heavy a work-load at ABC (he co-anchors "Good Morning, America" and hosts Sunday's "This Week" series), brings heart and spirit as well as tremendous smarts to the task of political coverage, and if he's sometimes a trifle wonky, Sawyer is there to humanize him and the coverage. On Election Night, they were pure gold.

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